Top 1200 Power Of Now Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make it a matter of necessity to give to the sovereign - that is, to the Government, which represents the people as a whole - some effective power of supervision over their corporate use. In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong enough to control its conduct.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be the truth, so that's kind of warts and all.

The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.

I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came from that. I didn't read a book without pictures until I was 21.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

?'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.